Month: October 2006

Boing Boing: By eating this food, you agree to the following: “Seems like no one wants to “sell” you anything anymore — everything comes with a lame-ass “agreement” that you don’t get to negotiate.” (tags: free-culture ip-maximalism notes-towards-free-culture) Boing Boing:…

The latest Debian updates to sid have fucked up my iBook. I can have it boot and not use the network, or not boot and presumably use the network. Which is a bit Schrodinger. This has driven home how good…

First and Last and Always, Floodland and Vision Thing by The Sisters of Mercy have been reissued on Rhino Records. The albums all have additional tracks (b-sides, cover versions, and demos), new liner notes, and new typos on the covers.…

This looks like it was an excellent debate. The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » Future of Copyright: Roundtable 3 – Law, regulation and the future Can copyright protect art from becoming a business activity. What I don't mean…

“The Owls Map” by Belbury Poly is very good. It’s the synth music you almost remember from your 1970s schooldays (even if you didn’t have them) but with undercurrents of The Wicker Man. Tangerine Dream, Jarre, Kraftwerk, they’re not English but they…

The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » Future of Copyright: Roundtable 1 – Artists and copyright "Last week I went to a series of sessions run by Birkbeck, the AHRC New Directions in Copyright Network, and the Public Programmes…

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6118 This sharing economy is not meant to displace the commercial economy. Its purpose is not to force Madonna to sing for free. Free Software is not meant to displace the commercial economy, which has benefited greatly from it. But…

http://icommons.org/2006/10/16/dinner-with-magnatunes-john-buckman/ In my perspective, Creative Commons is not about non-commercial use, but about open culture. I am trying to make Magnatune a good example of how the commons does not exclude commercial use. There needs to be incentives for artists…